Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: Encountering non-fiction
- 1 Introduction: Historical and theoretical approaches
- 2 Unusable pasts: The secret history of Demetrios Tsafendas: assassin, madman, messenger
- 3 Literatures of betrayal: Confession, collaboration and collapse in post-TRC narrative
- 4 In search of lost archives: Nostalgia, heterodoxy and the work of memory
- 5 A very strange relationship: Ambition, seduction and scandal in post-apartheid life writing
- 6 Some claim to intimacy: Political biography and the limits of the liberal imagination
- 7 In short, there are problems: Literary journalism in the postcolony
- 8 Unknowable communities: Necessary fictions and broken contracts in the heart of the country
- 9 A new more honest code: Memoirs of the ‘born frees’ and the futures of non-fiction
- 10 Afterword: The extracurriculum
- Bibliography
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: Encountering non-fiction
- 1 Introduction: Historical and theoretical approaches
- 2 Unusable pasts: The secret history of Demetrios Tsafendas: assassin, madman, messenger
- 3 Literatures of betrayal: Confession, collaboration and collapse in post-TRC narrative
- 4 In search of lost archives: Nostalgia, heterodoxy and the work of memory
- 5 A very strange relationship: Ambition, seduction and scandal in post-apartheid life writing
- 6 Some claim to intimacy: Political biography and the limits of the liberal imagination
- 7 In short, there are problems: Literary journalism in the postcolony
- 8 Unknowable communities: Necessary fictions and broken contracts in the heart of the country
- 9 A new more honest code: Memoirs of the ‘born frees’ and the futures of non-fiction
- 10 Afterword: The extracurriculum
- Bibliography
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
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- Experiments with TruthNarrative Non-fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa, pp. 241 - 250Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2019